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Bulbarrow Hill

Hill in Dorset, England

Field	Value
name	Bulbarrow Hill
photo	Bulbarrow Hill and Balmers Coombe Bottom - geograph.org.uk - 57825.jpg
photo_caption	Bulbarrow Hill and Balmers Coombe Bottom, looking east from the footpath to Rawlsbury Camp
elevation_m	274
prominence_m	141
parent_peak	Lewesdon Hill
listing	HuMP, sub-Marilyn
location	Dorset, England
range	Dorset Downs
grid_ref_UK	ST779056
topo	OS Landranger 194

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Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metre hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and 10 mi north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation. Part of the hill is used for arable agriculture, but most is calcareous grassland. The hill overlooks the Blackmore Vale, and offers views of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Devon.

Rawlsbury Camp, a five acre Iron Age hill fort, is situated on a promontory of the hill. Little remains of the camp except the twin embankments and intermediate ditch which surrounded it. The hill gets its name from the several barrows that adorn the hill. Additionally, a medieval trackway crosses the ridge.[[File:Bulbarrow Hill Digital Terrain Model.jpg|thumb|A 3D digital terrain model of Bulbarrow Hill that shows the remains of the hillfort]]

The hill is a popular launch site for paragliders. The TV presenter Jack Hargreaves who died in 1994 had his ashes spread on Bulbarrow Hill above his home, Raven Cottage.

Bulbarrow Hill features heavily in the song Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes by the indie band Half Man Half Biscuit.

Radio towers

Bulbarrow Hill has been used for radio towers since 1942. In 1942, the RAF installed a Gee station there as the master of the "southern" Gee chain. This station had wooden masts. the Gee station was used until 1957. The USAF then used the site together with a site at Ringstead. As of 2016, the site is used for telecommunication masts. The twin radio transmitter towers are used by the emergency services.

References

. (2016). ["Dorset Aviation past and present"](https://www.aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/About_Us/Branches/Dorset%20Aviation%20Past%20and%20Present.pdf). *Royal Aeronautical Society, Christchurch Branch*.

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